Check-rower



(No Model.)

- PM. ELLIOTT.

. CHECK ROWER. No. 288,040. Patented Nov. 6, 18836 whim M 35 Upon the forward end of each of the said cross- PATENT FRANCIS M. ELLIOTT, SUMMUM, ILLINOIS.

CHECK-- ROWER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Iatent No. 288,040, dated November 6, 188

Application filed August To all whom it may concern lie it knownthat I, FRANCIS M. ELLIOTT, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Summuin, in the county of Fulton and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Rowers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved check-row mechanism for corn-planters. Fig. 2 is afront view of the same. Fig. 3 is a top view, and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of the pulleys and of the disk operate by the check-wire. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to check-rowmechanism for corn-planters; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of partsof the same, as hereinafter more fully described'and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the frame, upon the center of which are two uprights, B, forming bearings for the operating-shaft O and for the slide-operating slotted lever I), while the ends of the two parallel bars formingthe frame are provided with cross-bars E, upon which the pulleys over which the check-wire F passes are journaled.

bars is fastened a bracket, G, consisting of a flat bar bent double, forming a stirrup, be tween which theforward pulley, H, is j ournaled, and the lower end of the said flat bar is bent 4o downward upon the outer side of the crossbar, forming a fender, I, for the purpose of pre-. ventingthe check-wire from slipping under the frame, and for the purpose of guiding the said wire in under the downwardly-bent upper end,

J, of the flat bar,which prevents the wire from slipping off the pulley.

A frame, K, is pivoted with one side upon the center of each of the cross-pieces, turning in a horizontal plane, and two pulleys, L, are

journaled in the ends of this frame, leaving a 27, 1883. (No model.)

wire passes, passing out at the rear, upon the other side, over a pulley, M, journaled in a bracket upon the rear end of-the cross-bar.

Two guide-pulleys, N, are journaled upon the side of one of the frame-pieces, and the wire passes under the said pulleys, which are journaled one upon each side of the operatingshaft, and over a grooved disk or pulley, O, fastened upon the rear end of the said shaft and having two parallel bars, I, passed diametrically through the said disk and shaft, one upon each side of the groove in the disk.

An eccentric disk, Q, is fastened upon the shaft between the uprights, and turns in a longitudinal slot, R, in the seed-slide-operating lever, rocking the said lever when the shaft is revolved;

It will thus be seen that the knotted wire passes overthe forward pulleyupon oneside, be-. tween the pulleys journaled in the frame,under one guide-pulley, over the central grooved pulley, each knot upon the wire engaging two ends of the parallel bars and tilting them, under the other guide-pulley, between the pulleys in the pivoted frame upon the other side, and out at the rear over the rear pulley at that side. i

It will also be seen that when the planter is turned it is only needed to move the anchor at the end of the row, the pivoted frame in 80 which the pulleys which guide the wire across the machine swinging sufiiciently to allow the wire to slip in under the overhanging upper end of the front bracket, when the machine may be propelled back again, planting a new row, the wire passing in at the side at which it recently passed out, utilizing the forward pulley upon that side and allowing its rear pulley to be idle, while the wire passes out at that side at which it recently passed in, idling the forward pulley and using the rear pulley at that side.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. A wire-operated disk in,- a checlerower, consisting of a grooved pulley fastened upon ashaft, and two parallel bars passed diametrically through the pulley and shaft, one upon the purpose shown and set forth.

space between them, through which the check- 2. In a check-rower having the wire-op each side of the groove in the disk, as and for 10o said pulleys,l1avin g their ends bent downward,

the pivoted frame, the pulleys journaled in said frame, the rear pulleys, and the brackets 'in which said pulleys are journaled, one forward pulley, one pivoted frame, and one rear pulley being on each side of the frame, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

3. The combination of the forward pulleys, the central pivoted frames having pulleys, the rear pulleys, the guide-pulleys, the grooved pulley having the parallel trans verse arms, the

structed to operate as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANCIS M. ELLIOTT.

Witnesses: v

i J. L; BAUMGARTNER,

J OSEPH ELLIOTT. 

